If all of your users already exist on the management/head node I would actually suggest NIS for a medium sized ~100 node cluster. There's a lot of overhead to setting up and managing ldap that isn't present with NIS.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/12/12 00:45, Marcin Stolarek wrote: > > > Common solution for your problem is ldap. > > ...and a network filesystem between all nodes for home directories.. > > - -- > Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator > VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative > Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 > http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlC+qnoACgkQO2KABBYQAh/wdACfS1Ei3uXm5tDlSky1Iqc8SD8e > LUQAoIzekQj1Vy3dXO9ThCoLfwTj7igV > =xtYN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
